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Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Benjamin Madley
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel
Dan Ephron
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
Adam Tooze
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914,
Christopher Clark
America’s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union
Fergus M. Bordewich
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
Richard White
The Killing of Crazy Horse
Thomas Powers
Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
Kevin Starr
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Tim Weiner
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
Adam Hochschild
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from The Sedition Act of 1798 to The War on Terrorism
Geoffrey R. Stone
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Henry Wiencek
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Michael B. Oren
Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
Rick Perlstein
The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
Alice Kaplan
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter
A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
Orlando Figes
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America
Jackson Lears
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
George Chauncey
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery
Anthony Grafton, April Shelford, Nancy Siraisi
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism
Alexander Stille
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Nicholas Lemann
The Quest For El Cid
Richard Fletcher
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Neal Gabler
Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within
Geoffrey Hosking
Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn
Evan S. Connell
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton
The Wheels of Commerce: Volume 2 of Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century
Fernand Braudel
The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980
Jonathan D. Spence
Land of Savagery, Land of Promise: The European Image of the American Frontier
Ray Allen Billington
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Ronald Steel
